Events Calendar
The Many Worlds of Mainland "British Latin America" Symposium
Thursday, May 05, 2022 - 01:00pm - 06:30pm
Rutgers Academic Building (West Wing) 6th Floor, Seminar Room 6051
15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
DAY 1 – Thursday, May 5, 2022
1:00pm Opening
1:30 – 3:00pm Categorical Questions? Caste, Color and Race-Making
Moderator: Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University
“Malabar, Gentoo, Pariah: A Speculative History of South Asian Blackness in Guyana”
Vikram Tamboli, UCLA
“Listening for Ancient South India: British Orientalism in the West Indies and Within the Sonic Terrain of ‘Madrasi’ Music in British Guiana”
Stephanie Lou George, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Madrasi, Hindu, Creole: Lexicons of Race and Caste in Post-Emancipation British Guiana”
Najnin Islam, Colorado College
Break
3:15 – 4:15pm Belonging in Belize: Nationalism, Diaspora and Multi-Ethnic Identity Through Carnival and Digital Space
Moderator: Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University
“Belize Da Fi Wi – Now & Forever, 8867: Examining Local Politics Though a Belizean Carnival”
Jazmin Miller, Florida International University
“Digitizing Belizean Geographies of Empire and Culture in (Post)Colonial Belize”
Nicole Ramsey, University of Virginia
5:00pm – 7:30pm Keynote and Dinner
“Tales of the Sea” - Gaiutra Bahadur
DAY 2 – Friday, May 6, 2022
8:30am Breakfast
9:15 – 10:45am Repurposing Colonial Archives: Cultural Forms and Histories of Indenture
Moderator: Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University
“Artistic Responses to Crossing the Kala Pani”
Grace Aneiza Ali, Florida State University
“Mystifying Empire: Indentured Labor and the Making of Consent in David Dabydeen’s The Counting House and the Colonial Archive”
Amrita Mishra, Berea College
“Is the ‘Coolie’ Woman a Banker?”
Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, University of Chicago
Break
11:00 – 12:00pm Fluid Ecologies, Economies and Intimacies in British Guiana
Moderator: Seth Koven, Rutgers University
“Water, Indenture, and the Long Village Movement in 1840s–1850s Coastal Guyana”
Catherine R. Peters, Yale University
“‘Up to our Eyes in Water and Mud’: Solidarity and the 1934 Floods in British Guiana”
Nicole A. Burrowes, Rutgers University
LUNCH
1:00 – 2:30pm Difference and Identity on the Anglophone Isthmus and Islands
Moderator: Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University
“From Native to Raizal: Indigeneity and the Anglophone Heritage of San Andrés and Providencia Islands”
Sharika D. Crawford, United States Naval Academy
“The Nicaragua Canal, The Moravian Church, and the Colonial Imaging of Afro-Mosquitian Women and Girls in the Nicaraguan Post-Independence Period”
Melanie White, Brown University
“Subjects not Citizens: West Indian Immigrants and the Struggle for British Subjecthood
Khemani Gibson, Rutgers University
Break
2:45 – 4:45pm Entanglements of Empire: Mobilities and Liminal Spaces in Early Modern “British Latin America”
Moderator: Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
“Transimperial Mobilities, Slavery, and Becoming Catholic in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena
de Indias”
Bethan Fisk, University of Bristol
“‘A Receptacle for Convicts and other Dangerous Characters’: British Honduras and Enslaved Rebels and Convicts from the Greater Caribbean during the Era of Abolition”
Ebony Jones, North Carolina State University
“Labor in Caste War-Era British Honduras: Contracts, Debt, and Coercion on a Colonial Frontier”
Kate Reed, University of Oxford
“Sovereignty and Possession in Belize, 1730-1779”
Jacqueline Ly, Yale University
5:00 – 5:45pm Closing Plenary Remarks by Alissa Trotz and Conversation
6:00pm until Dinner
